If Courts Only Favour the State, Justice Remains Unserved
The Supreme Court’s remarks in the case about migrant workers during the lockdown is further proof of this trend.
Delhi Violence: Delhi Police on Arrest Spree While Prisoners Being Released Amid Lockdown
At least 10 persons, including a pregnant Jamia student, have been reportedly picked up in connection with the anti-CAA-NRC-NPR protests and the violence in Northeast Delhi.
Indian Media is Enemy of the Poor, Anti-Science, Worships Falsehoods
Citizens must understand that eventually, they are the losers when false information is deliberately allowed to proliferate, says senior journalist Ravish Kumar.
Criminal Intimidation of The Wire & its Editor, Siddharth Varadarajan and In Defence of a Free, Non-Communal Media
Statement by over 3500 intellectuals slamming the UP government for filing false criminal charges against The Wire and one of its founding editors, Siddharth Varadarajan.
Coronavirus Lockdown: As Hunger Grows, the Fear of Starvation Is Real
Over 100 million people face food insecurity if the PDS is not universalised.
Coronavirus Lockdown: The Seven and a Half Things that Modi Said and Did Not Say
On April 14, PM Modi announced that the lockdown was being extended till April 14. In his 25-minute speech, he did not talk about several things that urgently needed to be addressed by the Modi government and the urban elite.
Reaffirming Our Faith in the Constitution on Ambedkar Jayanti
Statement by National Alliance of People’s Movements on Ambedkar Jayanti.
Letter To The People Of India
Dr Anand Teltumbde’s open letter to the people of India before he was arrested on April 14 by the government on blatantly false charges.
Stop the Attempt to Intimidate Independent Media
Indian Cultural Forum, 4 April, 2020 We condemn, in the strongest possible terms, the FIRs filed against The Wire’s Founding Editor Siddharth Varadarajan by the police in Faizabad District, Uttar Pradesh. This is clearly an attempt to intimidate the media and muzzle its freedom. The Wire has been accused of causing panic when it reported…
Coronavirus v. Free Speech: Modi Government Opens New Battlefront in Supreme Court
The Wire Analysis, 1 April 2020 On Tuesday, the Centre turned two petitions pertaining to the welfare of migrant workers affected by the 21-day lockdown into an occasion to demand the Supreme Court give it control over the media’s coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic. But though the Modi government wanted the media to be told…